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Subject: [CARPENTER] M. L. Carpenter NY-Iowa
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:51:56 -0600


History of Fremont County, Iowa
Des Moines: Iowa Hist. Co., 1881.
Ross Township
Transcribed by Cay Merryman

CARPENTER, M. L., merchant, P. O. Tabor; born in Homer, Courtland county,
New York, September 13, 1822. Mr. Carpenter is a cousin to F. B. Carpenter,
the celebrated artist. He came to Tabor in the spring of 1857, and engaged
in the mercantile business, being the first store started in Tabor. He sold
out in the fall of 1862 and from that time to 1878 engaged first in one
enterprise and then in another. He has filled various offices of trust in
both church and state. He was married September 13, 1844, to Miss Caroline
P. Johnson, by whom he had four children; one now living: Lillie, wife to
Prof J. E. Todd, of Tabor College

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